When Ellen Brooks "Ellie" Morgan was born on 19 October 1893, in Edgefield, South Carolina, United States, her father, Jesse Lomax Morgan, was 39 and her mother, Julia Talbert Brooks, was 24. She married Joseph Boyce Johnson on 19 December 1915, in Edgefield, South Carolina, United States. She lived in Pickens Township, Edgefield, South Carolina, United States for about 10 years. She died on 23 November 1943, in Edgefield, Edgefield, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Edgefield Village Cemetery, Edgefield, Edgefield, South Carolina, United States.
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
Welsh (especially Glamorgan): from the medieval Welsh personal name Morgan, Morgant (Old Welsh Morcant, of uncertain etymology).
Irish: importation of the Welsh surname (see 1 above), to which has been assimilated more than one Gaelic surname, notably Ó Muireagáin (see Merrigan ).
Scottish: probably from a Gaelic personal name cognate with Welsh Morcant.
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